A six-year-old boy in the Stern family from Staten Island NY was missing his loafers the entire day. He was not able to find them. It was late afternoon, and his family wanted to go out. He still was not able to find his loafers. His four-year-old brother, on his own, started singing Hakol Yachol. A minute later they found his loafers! Read more: Bitachon Story #406
Dovid, a thirteen-year-old boy from Eretz Yisroel, left his house one morning to go to shul. He tried using the elevator, but it was broken. He therefore went down the steps and walked to shul. After davening, it came time to go back home. He thought to himself, “It will be hard for me to walk up seven flights of stairs without an elevator.” So, he turned to Hashem and asked Him to please make the elevator work. The entire time he was walking home, he had bitachon that Hashem would make it work. When he got to the building, he pushed the button, and the elevator worked. It brought him up to his house. He told his mother the story. So, she went out to check the elevator, but it was not working! For the rest of the day, it was broken. It only worked for him when he had bitachon! Read more: Bitachon Story #405
Mrs. Lieder* was looking for something and she couldn’t find it, so she said, “I’ll sing Hakol Yachol.” Her little two-year-old said, “Mommy, I know what that means. It means Hashem is going to help you find it.” Mrs. Lieder asked, “How do you know?” The two-year-old said, “Because by Morah the CD player wasn’t working, so she told the whole class to sing Hakol Yachol and it started working!” The mother said, “Wow!” She didn’t even give this chinuch to her child, it was the Morah who gave it to her child, and she brought it home and said, “Mommy, I know what Hakol Yachol means. It means that Hashem will help you!” Read more: Bitachon Story #404
Yaakov Zev Rand, an eleven- year-old boy from Chestnut Ridge, New York, was at a park with his camp. He was very thirsty and he did not have money to buy a drink. So he said, “Hashem can do everything. I trust that when I push the button on the soda machine He will make a drink come out.” Yaakov Zev then went over to the machine and pushed the button for a Powerade. Lo and Behold the drink came tumbling out!!! He went to the management of the park and they told him that it seemed like someone before him paid but for some reason the drink didn’t come out for him. Editor’s note: A Rav was asked in this case and he said that the drink was hefker and muttar for him to take. Should you have a similar situation, please ask your Rav. Read more: Bitachon Story #403
Chaim Dov Pruzanksy from Mountaindale, NY was in the car with his Rebbi. The window was not closing. They tried for 20 minutes, but to no avail. Finally, Chaim Dov said, “I’m going to have Bitachon in Hashem,” and immediately the window closed! Read more: Bitachon Story #402
Rabb Feig, a man from Eretz Yisrael, had a baby who was growing older and needed new clothing, but he did not have a penny to his name. He was trusting in Hashem that Hashem was going to provide him with parnassah. Not long after that, someone came and dropped off two big bags filled with clothing. He now had enough clothing for his baby for the entire year! Read more: Bitachon Story #401
Mrs. Bresler follows a Life with Bitachon, and she heard that Hashem pays for the Shabbos food. She needed to shop for Shabbos, but she did not have the money. She said to herself, ‘I’m going to go shopping, and I’m going to trust in Hashem that He’s going to pay the bill.’ She went to the store and filled up her shopping cart. She then got a phone call from her father, who told her that he was putting money into her account. It was more money than she needed! She was able to use the extra money to go on vacation. Read more: Bitachon Story #400
Mrs.` Schwartz, a teacher in Lakewood, said her school made a Shabbaton in a hotel. It was for the mothers and teachers. When they signed up, whoever had a baby told them they were bringing a baby and they would arrange for them to be on the second floor because there were a lot of steps and they couldn’t use the elevator on Shabbos. When it came the week of the Shabbaton, she realized that she forgot to tell them that she has a newborn baby. She was wondering if she should call them and tell them. She didn’t think it would be proper hishtadlus because then they would have to start moving people around. She decided to go with bitachon that they would put her on the second floor without calling them. When she got there, she got the second floor! She had told her husband that she forgot to tell them, and he gasped, ‘oy! What’s going to be? There’s no way you’re getting it because everyone has babies in Lakewood.’ She said, ‘that’s if you go with tevah, but if you go with bitachon, it’s a different set of laws!’ Read more: Bitachon Story #399
Rabbi and Mrs. Weiss were driving on the Garden State. It was raining heavily and making it very hard to drive. Mrs. Weiss said, “I trust in Hashem that he is going to make the rain stop at 6:38.” At exactly 6:38, the rain stopped! Read more: Bitachon Story #398
The Lieberman family, living in Eretz Yisroel, wanted to come to the U.S. for the summer to spend time with family. They were really looking forward. They already had their tickets booked, car rental and apartment reserved. At the last minute, their flight was canceled. They didn’t know what to do. To go onto any other flight was very expensive, and they didn’t have the money. They turned to Hashem and trusted in Hashem that he already gave them their ישועה and they started thanking Hashem. Not long after that, someone called up Rabbi Lieberman. He owed him money from many years ago and he paid him back now. It was a tremendous amount of money. Hashem sent them exactly what they needed when they needed it. Read more: Bitachon Story #397
R’ Moshe Weinberger, a yungerman from Yerushalayim Ir Hakodesh, went to the store. He had a wallet that was full of money, credit cards and insurance cards. By mistake, he left it in the store. He only noticed it once he came back home. He said, had he not been following the “A Life with Bitachon” hotline, he would have been all nervous. He would have jumped up and ran down all the steps to the store. Along the entire way he would be thinking what he could do to get back his wallet. Now that he follows the “A Life with Bitachon” hotline, he was totally calm. He was picturing to himself the entire way to the store, how he was going to find the wallet. Baruch Hashem, he got to the store and there was his wallet! Read more: Bitachon Story #396
R’ Kaplan* wanted his son to go to a certain yeshiva, and they had been waiting for a long time for a call to find out if he would be accepted. Finally, his wife decided to listen to the songs on the Bitachon hotline to be mechazek. She listened to the songs, and three minutes later, the cheder called and told her he was accepted! Read more: Bitachon Story #394
